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Monday, April 28, 2014

I had so much fun making my first shaker card in the weekend so when I started my altered matchbook box project (for Mother's Day) I made the top a shaker too. I thought the thickness of the box was perfect for it. I glue a stamped and coloured acetate in the inside, then filled with sequins and beads, glue a clear acetate on top (outside), and cover with pattern paper. So fun!!

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Today while I was taking a stroll in blog land, I came across some very fun and beautiful shaker cards on this post at Lin's blog, Sending Hugs. I was really inspired to play so I made my very first shaker card.

So what do you think? Even though I didn't stamp any sentiment, I thinks it's pretty clear that it's Christmas card. Inside the shaker, I have both beads and sequins. I hope it qualifies for the Sequin Blog Hop hosted by Paulina, owner of Pretty Pink Posh blog. Go check out the details and play along!

I am sharing my process today, so the post is a little long! Bear with me or skip ahead if you like.

I have use my ink with my stencil before, but I really want to try the embossing paste; however I don't have any and I won't have time to get some for this project which I want to finish as quickly as possible! So I made my own. I mixed Gesso and some embossing powder. (These embossing powder does not give me good result when I heat emboss with it, so I found another way to use it up. :) ) I secure my Hero Arts Large Lotus Pattern stencil over a piece of water colour paper, then spread the mixture over it. Remove stencil and let dry. The piece looks like this:

I really like the texture. Next I use the distress ink applicator and sponged Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, and Barn Door over it. Like so:

Next I spritz Perfect Pearl solution all over, the ink reacts with the water and blend together. I place my stencil on top matching the pattern, and quickly dabbed the raised area with a paper towel to remove the ink. (I don't know why I did ink it before I add the gesso mixture!?) And it now looks like this:

Then I let it dry completely. And I really like how it turned out, but I didn't know what to do with it!!! As in how to make it into a card, nothing comes to mind. So I torn it up!! Yes you heard me, I torn it into two halves and use one to make a card like this:

Well thanks for listening. The greeting, from Penny Black, is stamped with ColoxBox Lime pigment ink and heat embossed with clear powder.

ETA (on April 9th, 16:00): I thought I missed the deadline for the Simon Says Happy Birthday Challenge. But it turned that the linky was closed early. So now I have the chance to enter.